Program

23 and 24 February, 2023

Visitor's Center at MBZUAI

Day 1 | Thursday, 23/2

9:00

Arrival / Coffee and Light Breakfast

9:45

Opening Remarks

Video

10:00

Ebtesam Almazrouei

Director, AI Cross Center Unit

Technology Innovation Institute

Reducing the Energy Cost of AI: Optimizing Large-Scale Models for Sustainability

10:45

Aurick Qiao

CEO

Petuum

Victor Miller

Senior Product Manager

Petuum

Risks and Rewards of Generative AI for Critical Business Processes

Video

11:30

Lunch

13:30

Mariam Al-Harbi

Head of Research

Abu Dhabi Health Services Company - SEHA

AI in Healthcare: Focus on clinical trials and AI

Video

Slides

Mariam Al Harbi MD - AI in Healthcare.pptx

14:15

Yury Gorbachev

OpenVINO Architect and Fellow

Intel Corporation

Opportunities and challenges when bringing AI to production

Video

Slides

Yury Gorbachev - CASL_Opportunities and challenges when bringing AI to production.pdf

15:00

Yonghao Zhuang

Carnegie Mellon University

Efficient and Sustainable Communication in Training Foundational Models

Video

Slides

Yonghao Zhuang - CASL Workshop

15:45

Break

16:15

Neha Sengupta

Principal Applied Scientist

Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Data Management for Large Arabic Language Model Training

Video

Slides

Neha Sengupta - CASL_LLM_IIAI_share.pdf

17:00

Mohamed Elhoseiny

Assistant Professor -
Visual Computing

KAUST

Imaginative AI: Towards Learning Algorithms with human-level imaginative skills transforming species discovery, content creation, self-driving cars, and emotional health

Video

Slides

Mohamed Elhoseiny - ImaginativeAI_for_CASL_MBZUAI.pdf

17:45

Alham Fikri Aji

Assistant Professor -
Natural Language Processing

MBZUAI

Community Based AI Research 

Video

Slides

Alham Fikri - Multilingual NLP through Collaborative Research.pdf

18:15

Speakers and Organizers: Return to WB Hotel for Dinner

WB Hotel Yas Island

Day 2 | Friday, 24/2

9:00

Arrival / Coffee and Light Breakfast

9:30

Moustafa Samir

Machine Learning Manager

Beyond Limits, Inc

Hussein AL-NATSHEH

CTO - Unstructured Data

Beyond Limits, Inc

Low-code Productionized Machine Learning Software as a Service:

An example of utilizing our MLOps Framework in the Chemical Industry

10:15

Panel on Sustainable AI

Hussein Al-Natsheh

Beyond Limits, Inc

Mohamed Elhoseiny

KAUST

Alex Aliper 

Insilico Medicine

Sankalp Arora

Gather AI

Video

11:00

Alex Aliper

President

Insilico Medicine

Generative AI and 6th Generation Drug Discovery Robotics for Chemistry, Biology and Medicine

Video

Slides

Alex Aliper - Insilico Medicine_CASL2 (Feb 24, 2023).pdf

11:45

Lunch

13:45

Guillaume Crozier

SVP Cargo UAE & Head of Global Cargo Strategy

Dnata

Daniel Maturana

Chief ML Scientist

Gather AI

Sankalp Arora

CEO

Gather AI

Next-Generation Air Cargo through Digitization: Applications of Vision-based Inventory Monitoring System

Video

14:30

Yemin Shi

Head of Z-Lab

Beijing Academy of
Artificial Intelligence

A glimpse of Large Model and AGI from the perspective of application

Video

Slides

Yemin Shi - CASL workshop.pdf

15:15

Closing Remarks

15:30

Break

16:00

Social Event: Buses depart to Louvre Abu Dhabi

18:30

Speakers and Organizers: Dinner at Fouquet's (Louvre Abu Dhabi)